United States v. Warmsprings Irr. Dist.

JAMES ALGER FEE, District Judge.

The Malheur River is a perennial stream in which the flow of water is seasonal, varying from flood conditions in spring to an extremely small flow in late summer. This stream heads in three different localities, and the resultant water courses are known respectively as the South Fork, Middle Fork and North Fork of the Malheur. These branches have united, just below Juntura, Oregon, as the Malheur River, which flows in a northeasterly direction and empties into the Snake. Willow Creek runs in a southeasterly direction to join the Malheur, some fifteen miles from…